Reception 2025 - 2026

Miss Ingman

Mrs Atherton

Welcome to Reception!

Welcome to the autumn term!

Miss Ingman - Goslings class. Mrs Aspinall will teach the Goslings on a Thursday morning.

Mrs Atherton - Cygnets class. Mrs Aspinall will teach the Cygnets on a Thursday afternoon.

Mrs Aspinall, Mrs Gauterin and Mrs Capper also work and support in Reception.

Our topics for the autumn term.

Autumn 1 - Who is in our family?
Autumn 2 - What is in the sky?

During the Autumn term, children will be exploring their new classroom whilst making new friends and getting to know their teachers. Children will be spending time learning where to put their belongings and will start to recognise and write their name when self registrating. We will be encouraging children to be more independent during snack time by washing their hands before accessing a healthy snack. During 'busy time' children will learn how to play in each area and will use the term 'choose it, use it, put it away' to help when tidying up.

Throughout Reception we will be exploring different themes within our provision. In Autumn 1 we will be learning all about the season of Autumn, and we will be talking about ourselves, our families, and things we like and dislike which links to our topic 'Who is in our family?' We will also be playing lots of games to get to know each other and learn all about our school rules and expectations. In our literacy lessons we will be using the text 'The Gingerbread Man' and will be learning the poem 'I'm a Little Hedgehog'. In maths we will be looking at sorting, matching and comparing objects and will be creating simple patterns.

In Autumn 2 we will be learning all about the night sky and light and dark which links to our topic ‘What is in the sky?’ We will also be looking at the different festivals and celebrations families celebrate throughout this term from Diwali through to Christmas. In our literacy lessons we will be using the text ‘Star in the jar’ and will be learning a story with a Christmassy feel to perform to our grown-ups. In maths we will learning our numbers to 5 by looking at their composition, subitising and one more and one less.

We use the Floppy Phonics scheme to teach our daily phonics lessons which has two sessions for each sound.

Children need to come dressed in their PE kit every Monday.

Celebration Assembly

Celebration Assembly will be on Friday at 9 am, every third week. You will get a message from school if your child is receiving a reward.

Homework

Homework will be set on a Friday. This will be uploaded on Tapestry every Friday, along with the weekly snapshots.

Tapestry

Each week you will be able to see photographs of your child's learning on Tapestry.

Important Dates
Friday 12^th December – Nursery and Reception Christmas Performance, 9am and 2pm.
Tuesday 19th May - Reception Sports Day

We use the Development Matters guidance document to plan our curriculum. Please click here for Development Matters.

If you need to get in touch with a member of the reception team, please phone or email the school office, speak to one of us when you collect your child or send us a message via Tapestry.